Scenes in the City
Context
Title track of Branford Marsalis's first album as a leader, released on Columbia in 1984 and recorded at RCA studios in New York. The piece is a Charles Mingus composition written some twenty years earlier; the album, which shares a good part of the personnel of Wynton Marsalis's records of the time, is the only Branford album included in the Penguin Guide to Jazz list of the 1,000 best albums.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Neoclassicism, Young Lions: Hard bop, Modal.